Illuminating and heating device



June 7, 1927. 31,645

' J- J- REKAR ILLUMINATING AND HEATING DEVICE Filed Jan. 1925 INVENTOR: J27 J fife/fa 7';

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Patented June 7, 1927.

llNITE-D STATES JAY J". REKAR, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

ILLUMINATING AND HEATING DEVICE.

Application filed January 31, 1925. Serial No. 6,044.

This invention relates to heating appara tus, and more particularly to a combined portable, electric heater and electric lamp for heating and illuminating rooms of homes, offlces and various other institutions.

it is an object of the invention to provide a combined lamp and heater with means for enabling the horizontal, vertical and angular adjustment of the lamp and the heater as to most comfortably and benefically and economically cast the rays of light and of heat generated by the respective elements of the device.

An object is to provide a counterbalanced, hingedly and slidably mounted electric heater, having, in combination, a lamp which is variously adjustable with the heater atwill.

An object is to provide combined standard, lamp and heater of simple, practicable and substantial character forming a unitary or organized article of great utility and convenience in adaptation to various demands when in use to most effectively accom plish the desired purposes.

Gther objects and advantages will be made manifest in .thefollowing specification of apparatus embodying one form of the invention; it being understood that various modifications, changes in structure and adaptations may be resorted to within the spirit of the invention and here claimed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device; the standard being broken away to show the counterweight.

Figure 2 is a detail section of the heater; showing the wiring diagram.

The heater includes an inner reflector 2 of the usual circular, concaved form having a central core 3 carrying a resistance coil 4 giving off heat when energized by electric current from a suitable source. Current supply is controlled by an appropriate switch 5 arranged in rear of the reflector and preferably enclosed by a box 6 outside of which the switch handle 7 is disposed for access. Electric current wires 89 are run into the box and connected to the terminals of the heating coil 4.

Spaced from the back of the reflector 2- is a back or protecting shell 10 centrally apertured to clear the switch means 5. The shell is circular and its front edge projects beyond the rim or front beaded edge of the reflector 2 and is spaced from it. The shell the scope thereof as and the reflector may be mechanically attached in any suitable manner, as by inside bracket means 11. One or more screws 12 may serve to connect the box 6, the shell 10, and the reflector in a simple manner.

I utilize the heating structure as a substantial support for an electric light fixture having its socket 1 secured on the upper part of the shell 10 which is perforated at the base 15 of the socket to provide out-let thereto of branch wires or feeders 161'7. The base of the socket is shown as provided with an extended portion forming a handle 18 by which the heater and lamp may be tilted or swung or raised or lowered as here provided for.

To enable the desired adjustment just suggcsted, I provide a suitable standard preferably having a hollow column 20 on a sufficiently heavy base 21 to remain stable. The column has a cap 22 having a pulley wheel for a rope 24 connected to a weight 25 in the column and to a slide 26 friction ally fitting the exterior of the column, and

adapted to be readily run up or down. The slide has a handle 27 for convenience of operation by a person desiring to shift the slide, which has a laterally extending arm '28 on which is pivotally attached a short post 29 fixed on the bottom of the shell 10. Thus the pivot or hinge joint 30 on the end of the arm 28 allows the heater to be tilted back or forth on the arm, and the slide permits the heater to be raised or lowered as may be desired for illumination and heating of any particular portion of a room. Further, the arm 28 can be swung around horizontally at any altitude and angular position of the heater.

Thus I have provided an electric heater and lamp which can be set at any height and angle in a room by disposing the column in an advantageous position as regards the direction and angle in which the beam of heat and light, either together or sepa 'ately, is to be thrown.

Ordinarily, portable electric heaters are unadjustable and cast the beam at a fixed angle as to the base of the heater, and to get heat of the beam at different elevations. the heater must be set upon such various pieces of furniture as may be most convenient at the moment, without getting the desired results.

The lamp is shown as having a universally adjustable reflector 13.

The shell is spaced from the reflector at all points so as to avoid loss of heat by metallic contact conduction rearwardly from the reflector.

\Vhere the brackets 11 engage the shell turnable along the column and having a handle on one side and an arm on the opi posite side, and a heating structure vertically adjustable along and turnable as to the column by said slide, and supported thereby in all its positions, said bracket being loosely mounted for free sliding and turning actions.

8. In combination, in an electric, portable heater, a portable column, a counterbalanced slide vertically adjustable along the column, and a heating device adjustably mounted on the slide.

at. In combination, in an electric,portab5e heater, a portable column having a sliding and swinging bracket, and a heater structure adjus'tably mounted on the outer end of the bracket, and having a counterbalance in the column. I

5. In combination, in a portable electric heater, a supporting device, a heater slidably and tiltably mounted on said device, and means for counterbalancing the heater to suspend it at any location along thesupport.

6. In combination, a portable electric heater having a shell, and an electric lighting device mounted in an exposed position on top of the shell, and separate switch means for the heater and the light device, and a standardhaving an adjustable carrier upon which the heater and the lighting means are mounted. I I p 7. A portable heating and illuminating device including a tiltably mounted heater and the lighting means are mounted.

8. A portable heating and lighting unit, including a hollow column, a slide shiftably and turnably mounted on the column and having a lateral arm, a counterbalance in the column and connected to the slide, and an electric heater adjustably mounted on the arm;

9. In a portable electric heater, :1 front reflector, and a back shell secured to the refi'ector and wholly spaced therefrom around the back and rim oi the reflector, a switch box mounted in the back shell rear of the reflector, and neans securing the shell, the box and the reflector in rigid relation, and a switch disposed in the chamber between the shell box and the reflector.

10. In combination, a standard, a bracket slidably and turnably mounted on the standard, ,7 and heating and illuminating means mounted on the bracket to be adjusted thereby to different ositions to disperse light and heat in esired directions and at different heights, and means on the standard for counterbalancing the heating and illuminating means at any position 7 thereabout;

11. In combination, a standard, a bracket slidably' and turnably mounted on the standard-,andheatingandli htin means mounted on the bracket to e a justed thereby to different positions to disperse li ht and heat in desired directions and at ifl'erent heights, said meansbeing tiltable on the bracket to vary the angle ofdispersion.

12. In combination, a portable electric light and heater device including a, shell and a reflector spaced inwardlyther'eof and secured thereto, a switch Within the shell for the heater, a switch and socket disposed QXtGIlOIlY ontop of the shell for the li ht lam and wiring connections disposed etween the shell and the reflector and leading from the heater switch to the lamp socket.

JAY J. REKAR. 

